If there is no horizontal intervention of the empire, Chen Wu can directly intervene in the Tiannan Legion, which is quite convenient to deal with. Lewen novel w-w. However, the center clearly demanded that the establishment of the Tiannan Legion must be independent, and most of them would have other wills for Leji, which made Chen Wu have to think carefully.

It is obviously not possible to act immediately and forcefully. Not only does it lack a reasonable excuse, but it is more likely to trigger a backlash from the Tiannan Army. After careful discussion, Chen Wu decided to respect the existence of the Tiannan Legion for the time being, and still let them garrison the restored Nanfeng Fortress, but instead infiltrate in a more secretive and slow way.

There are only two methods, one is to pay for food, and the other is to kill people with a knife.

The reason why the empire was willing to hand over Tiannan County to Chen Wu was not because of any good intentions. Of course, there is a sense of being forced to be helpless, but it is more about wanting to drag down Chen Wu with this move. After Chen Wu took over the power of Tiannan in the name of the acting governor as the envoy of Tiannan, the empire directly stopped the food and salary of the Tiannan army under the pretext of lack of money, and instead asked for local fundraising.

The extra food and salary of tens of thousands of troops in plain white was indeed a heavy burden for Chen Wu. You must know that the Tiannan Army is the main army, and it often faces the threat of the Omanis, and the average salary of the soldiers is almost twice that of the second-line troops, and there are additional allowances in wartime. In other words, the expenditure of maintaining more than 40,000 people in the Tiannan Army is almost equal to 100,000 second-line troops!

Throw off this heavy burden, and the finances of the imperial center will be much better.

However, although the empire had his intentions in doing this, it also gave Chen Wu the opportunity to indirectly control the Tiannan Army in terms of food and logistics. No matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, the army will have no food and salary, and after a long time, it will still mutini and bomb the battalion. Although this indirect control takes time, Chen Wu knows that time is in his favor, and the easing that the empire expects will never come!

As for the other strategy of borrowing a knife to kill. It's much simpler.

That's the Omanis!

suffered such a big loss, with Saladin's character, he would definitely not be reconciled. It will come back in the future. The Tiannan Legion fought against the Omanis and was bound to continue to lose its numbers. Chen Wu can take advantage of the situation to send in the recruits of the War Readiness Agency openly. These soldiers, who have been trained by Chen Wu's Combat Readiness Administration, and whose family members are also under Chen Wu's control, will eventually favor it is self-evident.

With this method of mixing sand, Chen Wu's control over the Tiannan Army will become more and more solid. When a certain level is reached, it is the moment when the transformation is actually completed.

In the previous conversation with Le Ji in Tianlong City, there was a faint attitude of testing Le Ji. The faint meaning in the veteran's words also gave Chen Wu the confidence to let go. As long as a consensus and compromise is reached with Leji and the Tiannan Army on this point, it will be much easier to integrate the local forces of Tiannan County.

Local Garrison Brigade of Cheonnan County. has been lost in the battle of Tianlong City, and the rest has also been absorbed by Leji, which is basically equivalent to being wiped out. The remaining local city defense battalions, due to their average combat strength, were scattered in various places and could not work together, at most they could only bring a little trouble to the Songjiang army.

The specific operation method is to stabilize them first on the one hand, and draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle on the other hand.

Stabilizing them first means that the original city defense battalion will continue to be used. But at the same time. Chen Wuhui recruited troops in Tiannan County to form the Tianlong Garrison Division. After the strength of the Tianlong Garrison Division is basically mature, they will be used to replace the original city defense battalions in various places. Of course. These soldiers of the city defense battalion have a foundation, and Chen Wu will not be disbanded. If after the assessment, there are still soldiers who can fight or can be shaped, Chen Wu will continue to absorb them.

Only those who usually show hostility to the Taiping Army and are secretly mastered by local powerful families, or who have fallen and have no combat power, will be completely eliminated.

This process is expected to take at least three months to six months to be preliminarily completed.

Even if we start doing it now, I am afraid that it will not be until next spring and summer when it is fully implemented.

After such a comprehensive integration, it encompasses the entire Songjiang and Cheonnam counties. Chen Wu's current and future military strength is as follows: the 1st Division of the Songjiang Army (full formation), the 2nd Division (in preparation), the Dengzhou Garrison Division (to be expanded), the Tianlong Garrison Division (in preparation), and the three reorganized divisions of the Tiannan Army under the nominal upper and lower jurisdictions.

After this integration. The entire military strength of the two counties was unified into one identical system. After the entire program is completed. General Chen Wu truly completed all the control of the two counties and became a decisive force in the southeast of the empire. To this end, Chen Wu also set up a military department to be responsible for the preparation, analysis, and deduction of the war.

Of course, the establishment of this department involves another major module in addition to the military reform of the Governor's Office, the reform of the administrative organs.

On the whole, Chen Wu still follows the division of the empire's institutional system, but combines the optimization of players before the time travel, and makes a lot of changes. According to his plan, after this reform, the administrative division of Songjiang and Tiannan counties will be fully unified. The original different expressions such as the government and the yamen were all regulated as the government and integrated into eight departments.

First of all, there is the military department, and it is clear what it is in charge of.

This is followed by the three major areas of the Finance Department, the Administration Department, and the Home Affairs Department.

As the name suggests, the Financial Services Department is in charge of money.

Subsequently, the separation of the Administration and the Interior was a great change compared to the Empire.

The future administrative office of Songjiang is responsible for the personnel evaluation and appointment of officials at all levels, including promotion, review, demotion, appointment and dismissal. Among them, there is also a department that will make corrupt officials smell bad in the future: the Supervision Department.

The Department of the Interior is in charge of the internal affairs of the two counties, including the trial of local public security and civil cases, the repair and dredging of agricultural administration and water conservancy, and the formulation of corresponding plans to promote economic development.

One of the larger changes included the reorganization of the existing system of arresting government officials, the banning of local militia private soldiers, and the adoption of a police system. This will increase the financial pressure, but also reduce the energy of the local powerful family to a certain extent, and minimize the hidden dangers. Of course, there will certainly be great troubles and problems in the concrete implementation, and even local resistance. It will take a long time to promote it before it can be implemented.

In this regard, Chen Wu is also mentally prepared and is not in a hurry to see the results in a short time.

Even after this division, Chen Wu still felt that the power of the Internal Affairs Bureau was too great. However, in the existing imperial system, the internal affairs department has more power, taking into account the personnel power of the administration. Those responsible for economic development, agriculture, and water conservancy are only a branch under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is precisely because of this that Chen Sansheng, the current Minister of the Interior of the Empire, is considered one of the three most powerful ministers, and even implicitly overpowers the Minister of Finance and the Minister of War.

Now, however, the imbalance of power is undoubtedly much better with the separation of administration and administration of personnel and the administration of internal affairs, and there is no greater balance between the various departments, and there is no such thing as the Minister of the Interior being too busy to balance all sides.

After the three major departments of administration, finance and internal affairs, there are four institutions that cannot be ignored: the Department of Culture and Education, the War Readiness Department, the Press and Distribution Department, and the Ministry of Industry!

As a traveler, he is well aware of the importance of culture and education. In the current Qianyuan Empire, the spread of education and knowledge was mainly in the hands of the aristocracy and families. Although there is a similar model of scientific examination, it has not been seriously implemented - of course, even if it is implemented, most of the people who can be admitted are the children of the nobles of the family. Chen Wu knew very well that there were only two ways to break the existence of the nobles from the roots: industry and culture and education!

The advent of the Industrial Revolution could greatly increase productivity and liberate the peasants from the land and free them from landlord control and slavery.

The popularization of culture and education broke the monopoly and privileges of aristocratic families, coupled with the comprehensive promotion of the imperial examination system, which eventually made it possible for poor families and even ordinary peasants to serve as officials.

Of course, the imperial examination that Chen Wu intends to promote in an all-round way is not a Bagu article that travels through a previous dynasty, but a more practical system similar to the civil service examination. Poetry and articles are only the foundation, and the governance of officials, people's livelihood and even science and engineering knowledge are what he wants to promote. It can not only reduce the vigilance and counterattack of the nobles of the family from a certain process, but also accumulate more practical talents, and finally gradually lead this world from the feudal era to the threshold of the industrial revolution!

It may take decades or even longer, but Chen Wu can afford to wait.

The Ministry of Industry, which has been set up specifically for this purpose, will be in line with the strategy of the Department of Culture and Education in this regard.

The current people of the empire, basically the same as the feudal era before the time, have a contemptuous attitude towards skilled craftsmen, and their status is not high. The only thing that pays more attention to the military industry is only the workshop of the Ordnance Division. However, Chen Wu was different, and directly promoted the Ministry of Industry to the same level as culture, education, and internal affairs and finance.

It is not only necessary to encourage industry and commerce, but also to encourage the development and innovation of science and technology.

In addition, there will be a construction bureau under the Ministry of Works, which will be used for the construction of bridges, towns and wharves, as well as the maintenance of official roads and even the construction of water conservancy facilities - this needs to be coordinated with the Department of the Interior, which is responsible for planning and the latter for implementation.

Needless to say, Chen Wu had it a long time ago, and this time it was just a formal clarification of its powers: unified responsibility for the training of recruits in various ministries, the procurement of food and grass, the supply of military uniforms, the production of tents, and so on.

The original Craftsman Bureau and the Imperial Machinery Division Workshop that took over were also included in the War Readiness Administration.

The last of the eight departments, and the same one that the empire did not have, was the Press Distribution Agency.

The importance and power of propaganda agencies, the current empire may have a certain understanding, but it is definitely not as clear as the players who have crossed over. The purpose of the Press and Distribution Agency's preservation is to censor and regulate the publication on the market - of course, this is only a secondary task, so the culture of this world is far less developed than the real world before the time travel. The reason why Chen Wu specially created the News Distribution Bureau was mainly to publish and promote newspapers and deal with the corresponding matters arising therefrom!

Newspapers are still relatively rare here in Songjiang, but they are no longer a rare thing in Zhongzhou. Technically, movable type printing has also been invented, and there is no zài problem. It's just that there are few people in the empire who can read and write, and even fewer who are willing to pay for it. The newspapers in Zhongzhou are still mainly at the point of disseminating the compilers to their own amusement on a small scale, and the center has not yet realized its importance.

What Chen Wu wants to do is to cooperate with the efforts of the Culture and Education Department to create an official newspaper that can speak for the Songjiang government! (To be continued.) )>